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  Publication Date:  May 31, 2022 Format:  E-book Genre:   Time Travel Fiction/Mystery Publisher:  Minotaur Books Length:  352  pages Buy:    Kindle  |  Audiobook  Synopsis May 20, 2019:  Homicide detective Mallory is in Edinburgh to be with her dying grandmother. While out on a jog one evening, Mallory hears a woman in distress. She’s drawn to an alley, where she is attacked and loses consciousness. May 20, 1869:  Housemaid Catriona Mitchell had been enjoying a half-day off, only to be discovered that night in a lane, where she’d been strangled and left for dead . . . exactly one-hundred-and-fifty years before Mallory was strangled in the same spot. When Mallory wakes up in Catriona's body in 1869, she must put aside her shock and adj...

Publication Date:  December 7, 2021 Format:  kindle Genre:   International Mystery Crime Publisher:  Nan A. Talese Length:  320 pages Buy:    Kindle  |  Hardcover  Synopsis A murdered man is discovered dangling inside the tunnels of a Paris canal--the only clue, the tarot card in his pockets: the Hanged Man. When an innocent suspect is railroaded into prison for the homicide, Mazarelle sets off on the hunt for the real killer.   For the charming, hot-tempered, impulsive   Frenchman--now back from the provinces and leading his own homicide unit out of Paris’s famed Quai des Orfevres--it’s an investigation that takes him far from the comforts of Beaujolais and bouillabaisse, and plunges him into an underworld of ruthless w...

Publication Date:  May 11, 2021 Format:  Kindle Genre:   Fiction, Thrillers, Crime Publisher:  Backlist       Length:  400 pages Buy:    Kindle  |  Paperback  Synopsis An old van in the scrub, a phantom caller, and a long-forgotten murder. A lonely cop and an inquisitive kid must make the connection... It’s 1966 and the Australian Summer is as unrelenting as ever. Hal and his family have just come to live in Moorabool. On a day out, battling the heat, Hal and his little brother are exploring the creek near their new home when they find something almost too gruesome to believe… Enter Constable Mick Goodenough. Recently demoted from his big-city job as a detective, Goodenough is also new in town – and one of his d...

Publication Date:  July 27, 2021 Format:  Audio Genre:   Mystery/Crime Narrators:  Louise Brealey Publisher:  Macmillan Audio      Length:  9 hours 42 min Buy:  Kindle  |  Audio Synopsis In Ilmarsh, England, local Police Detective Alec Nichols discovers 16 horses' heads on a farm, each buried with a single eye facing the low winter sun. After veterinary forensics expert Cooper Allen travels to the scene, a pathogen is discovered lurking within the soil, and many of those who have come into contact with the corpses grow critically ill. A series of crimes comes to light - disappearances, arson, and mutilations - and in the dark days that follow, the town slips into panic and paranoia. Everything is not as ...

  Publication Date:  May 20, 2018 Format:  Kindle Genre:   Mystery/Thriller/ghosts Publisher:  Berkley Publishing  Pages:  334 Buy:  Kindle  |  Audio  |  Paperback Synopsis Vermont, 1950.  There's a place for the girls whom no one wants—the troublemakers, the illegitimate, the ones too smart for their own good. It's called Idlewild Hall, and local legend says the boarding school is haunted. Four roommates bond over their whispered fears, their friendship blossoming—until one of them mysteriously disappears.... Vermont, 2014.  Twenty years ago, journalist Fiona Sheridan's elder sister’s body was found in the overgrown fields near the ruins of Idlewild Hall. And although her sister’s boyfriend was tried and convicted of the murder, Fiona can’t stop revisiting the events, unable to shake the feeling that something was never right about the case. When Fiona discovers that Idlewild Hall is being restored by an anonymo...

Publication Date:  February 2, 2021 Format:  Audio Genre:   Mystery/ Crime Narrator:  Stephen Shanahan Publisher:  MacMillan Audio Length:  11 hours 57 min Buy:  Kindle  |  Audio Synopsis Kieran Elliott's life changed forever on the day a reckless mistake led to devastating consequences.  The guilt that still haunts him resurfaces during a visit with his young family to the small coastal community he once called home.  Kieran's parents are struggling in a town where fortunes are forged by the sea. Between them all is his absent brother, Finn.  When a body is discovered on the beach, long-held secrets threaten to emerge. A sunken wreck, a missing girl, and questions that have never washed away.... Review:...

Release Date:  August 3, 2018 Publisher:  Amazon Digital Services Format:  ebook Pages:  364 pages Genre:   Mystery, Crime, LGBT Buy:  Kindle  |  Paperback  |  Synopsis:  ABOUT THIS EPISODE A murdered night club mogul unlocks a web of infidelity and deceit. The most likely suspect? The daughter of the richest family in Baltimore, if only Detectives Malcolm Khalaji and Seong-Jae Yoon can piece the evidence together. The clues just aren't lining up—but Malcolm can't tell if he's missing a piece of the puzzle or completely missing the mark. The McAllister case still haunts him. So many dead. So many he couldn't save. It's throwing him off his game. And the only one who really understands is his strange, coldly aloof partner. A partner he can never see the same way, after a moment of intimacy that haunts him as much as the voices of the dead. Seong-Jae Yoon is struggling in his own way. He can't solve the case when he can't tr...

Release Date:  July 8, 2018 Publisher:  Amazon Digital Services Format:  ebook Pages:  242 pages Genre:   Mystery, Crime, LGBT Buy:  Kindle  |  Paperback  |  Synopsis:  ABOUT THE SERIES Baltimore homicide detective Malcolm Khalaji has his own way of doing things: quiet, methodical, logical, effective, not always particularly legal. He’s used to working alone—and the last thing he needs is a new partner ten years his junior. Especially one like Seong-Jae Yoon. Icy. Willful. Detached. Stubborn. Seong-Jae is all that and more, impossible to work with and headstrong enough to get them both killed…if they don’t kill each other first. Foxlike and sullen, Seong-Jae’s disdainful beauty conceals a smoldering and ferocious temper, and as he and Malcolm clash the sparks between them build until neither can tell the difference between loathing and desire. But as bodies pile up at their feet a string of strange, seemingly unrelat...

Release Date:  July 24, 2018 Publisher:  Berkley Format:  ebook Pages:  368 pages Genre:   Mystery/ Thriller Buy:  Kindle  |  Paperback Synopsis:  Cecilia Wilborg has it all--a loving husband, two beautiful daughters and a gorgeous home in the affluent Norwegian town of Sandefjord. And she works hard to keep it all together. Too hard. Because one mistake from her past could bring it all crashing down around her. Annika Lucasson lives a dark life with her abusive, drug-dealing boyfriend. She's lost everything one too many times and now she's got one last chance to save herself, thanks to Cecilia. Annika knows her secret--and just how much she's willing to do to make it all go away... When someone forgets to pick up their little boy at the local pool, Cecilia agrees to take him home, only to find an abandoned, empty house. It's the first step in the unraveling of her meticulously crafted life, as her and Annika's worlds collide. R...

Release Date:  June 26, 2018 Publisher:  Spiderline Format:  ebook Pages:  332 pages Genre:   Mystery/ Thriller Buy:  Kindle  |  Hardcover  |  Paperback Synopsis:  Detective Superintendent MacNeice is returning from a pilgrimage to his wife’s grave when he’s called to a crime scene of singular and disturbing beauty. A young woman in evening dress lies gracefully posed on the floor of a pristine summer cottage so that the finger of one hand regularly interrupts the needle arm of a phonograph playing Schubert’s Piano Trio. The only visible mark on her is the bruise under her chin, which MacNeice recognizes: it is the mark that distinguishes dedicated violinists, the same mark that once graced his wife. The murder is both ingenious and horrific, and soon entangles MacNeice and his team in Eastern Europe’s ancient grievances. Review: This is a really good police procedural set in Canada. MacNeice leads an interesting team of ...

Release Date:  November 9, 2016 Publisher:  Audible Studios Format:  Audio Length:  8 hours 27 minutes Narrator:  JF Harding Genre:  Romance Buy:  Audible | Kindle  Synopsis:  Ever since the accident that cost him his job on the Seattle police force, Kevin Quinn has been living with psychic abilities he refers to as the 'gift that keeps on taking'. His attempts to use his talents to help the police have been met with limited success. Yet, when teenage boys start going missing from the beach cities of Southern California, Kevin gets on a plane.  Connor Dougal has every reason to believe all psychics are fakes and charlatans. He's still numb from the disappearance of his first love, a boy who went missing 10 years earlier. Everything he aspires to is a direct result of that tragedy, even the acquisition of his detective shield. The irony of having to babysit Kevin Quinn is not lost on him.  These two suspicio...

Release Date: October 18, 2016 Publisher: Mulholland Books Format: Kindle Pages: 336 pages Genre: crime fiction Buy: kindle | hardcover Synopsis: East Long Beach. The LAPD is barely keeping up with the neighborhood's high crime rate. Murders go unsolved, lost children unrecovered. But someone from the neighborhood has taken it upon himself to help solve the cases the police can't or won't touch. They call him IQ. He's a loner and a high school dropout, his unassuming nature disguising a relentless determination and a fierce intelligence. He charges his clients whatever they can afford, which might be a set of tires or a homemade casserole. To get by, he's forced to take on clients that can pay. This time, it's a rap mogul whose life is in danger. As Isaiah investigates, he encounters a vengeful ex-wife, a crew of notorious cutthroats, a monstrous attack dog, and a hit man who even other hit men say is a lunatic. The deeper Isaiah digs, the ...

Title:  Buck: A Memoir by MK Asante Publisher: Randomhouse Publishing 272 pages Genre: memoir I received an advanced e-galley of this book through netgalley.com . It was released August 20, 2013 Synopsis:  MK Asante was born in Zimbabwe to American parents: a mother who led the new nation’s dance company and a father who would soon become a revered pioneer in black studies. But things fell apart, and a decade later MK was in America, a teenager lost in a fog of drugs, sex, and violence on the streets of North Philadelphia. Now he was alone—his mother in a mental hospital, his father gone, his older brother locked up in a prison on the other side of the country—and forced to find his own way to survive physically, mentally, and spiritually, by any means necessary. Review: Drugs, crime, broken families, and violence is nothing new to this Philly girl but it may be new to some.  This is a story of a brilliant writer who almost lost his battle to grow up. Through...

Title: Blue Belle by Andrew Vachss Publisher: Vintage Books - A division of Random House, Inc 340 pages Summary: Burke, the private-eye outlaw with a big problem with child molesters is back. When the yuppie-hating horse-playing ex-con takes on the Times Square world of porn and murder, he finds himself facing a deadly karateka (karate expert) named Mortay (Muerte) and falling for a full figured ex stripper who's learning to deal with her past as a child of incest.  Blue Belle often reads like a hardboiled detective novels. Short sentences. Punchy. Missing verbs. Though the dialogue has a cynical cast, there is not an ounce of moral ambiguity or irony - the evil child-molester/torturer/ killers versus Burke's family of misfits-with-hearts-of-gold, including a tough Asian matriarch, a tough would-be transsexual, a tough jack-of-all-shady-trades and a host of other gruff but goodhearted low-lifes, each with a redeeming mission in life. Review: This is the third Burke nove...